Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-10

sentiments attributed W nun
Ike most officers without much pr
rotc income. Major Danver was needy,
onJ ca when the sum of eSO0 was sent
tn lin, IS his share Of his fathers pro
nc,Iv he accented it without too close
sc,ntinv. No doubt he did inter hop,
that the little girl WAS well PROVIDE
for. hut the matter was not sufficiently
close to bis heart for him to write nome
and inquire. cooo .oo oo1
,hanLcd hro,ber Hugh forall the trouble
Inc Lad taken in winding up the estate
and Loncd he had paid himselffor his ex-
ncuditnre Of time and money, and he
hardly knew if she wassarcastic or not.
Her father dead, Oakdene sold, her
kindred so base, and her lover iase'
what then could more or less money
And vet Lionel was not false. II
she could only have hated him or any
orc. If would have been one living sea
tiu,nt in the dead sea that surrounded
lcr. He had come TO say oil that VS.
beautiful ard tender after her iather )
death :: he had been present at tha
funeral. and bad met brother Hugh as
a friend of the family only when he
I,erped that there was no will, and that
Oakdepc was TO he sold, and that
everything Mr.. Danver left was to be
divided equally among his ten children,
he bad allowed his mother to come and
tell the eiIl that all must be over be-
tween them.
Mrs. Amherst had not given Der yer
dict cruelty; on the contrary, she had
shed so many tears over it thGt every
feature in her amisble face was blurred
ont of recognition, and she had paused
q dozen times in the middle Of her OBJ
sc1yations TO say, with wall i'll her
voice Glow dreadful | must seem TO
YOU :" Put no amount OF sorrow could
alter the fact that her fourth son had
neither a career nor q shilling OF his
own in the world, and that, therefore,
since Eliza had lost her fortune, u
marriage with Lionel was absolutely
impossible.
Eliza hadacquiesced in this decision,
apd had wondered stupidity why Mrs.
Amherst was so sorry. She did not
think she was sorry. It was quite ma
tursl that things should be as they
were. Her father had been old and
likely to die, and he had died, and her
Lrothersand sisters accepted whatca
f. them LEGALLY and, since both Lilo
rel and she were poor, OF course they
had 10 part. 1t WAS oil quite natural
and reasonable, and exactly what she
might have expected and if she could
cnly have got rid Of that horrible
weight where her heart used to be she
did not think she would have minded
anything very much.
'ront think love You less. Oh,
| think / love yop q hundred times
morcthan ever" Mrs.. Amherst faltered,
wiying her disfgured face with the
square Of wet cambric which she had
leld in her hand throughout their in
terviow. "You Lave been as daugh-
ter 10 ne for years and you must be a
daughter still. | promised Lionel be-
fore be went away that yon would live
with me always
"Thcn he las gone away"
"Ycs, he went yesterday morning.
TIE said he could not bear to say fare
well. and ] suppose he thought You
would not come to Us as long as he was
1T home
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"To America, taking with him the
hope that some day be will have a home
TO offer You"
Eliza shook her head. not because
she knew Of the difficulties before him,
hut because she had no power Of
hoping lett.
and row, my dear, pack up your
things. and shy good bye to your bro
.hers and sisters PhouIsthat they are.
coming to batten on grAye-and come
home with me-"
You are kind to ask mo, but it Is
in possible, dear Mrs Amherst" the
eiYl answered with her tremu.ous smile.
"Impossible!" Mrs. Amherst
echoed.
Yes. must not sit down to think ::
must not let myself realize how very
miserable | am / must gotas faraway
from Oakdcne, and all connected VITA
If. rs the limits OF the kingdom Will per
nit. 50
And why?"
"To get work, aud to learn forget
fulpcsq. I am yOung aud strong AMI
poor: and | have little money AMI
much energy, and Will not let myself
he overwhelmed
So the end Of 1t all was that Elizl
Tanvcr took her lie into her own
bonds, found ont that she had talent
ior domestic management on IL large
scale, and resolved 20 utilize it.
Il woman may slave her life ont
and earn a pittancc and be gonteel, or
she may invest her brain-power AMI
capital in the service Of the million.
and thereby realize prosperity, II she
is lucky. But then she viii be cons!d-
cred vulgar. and her friends will de-
spise her. In that ease one is fortunate
Who, Ike ne, has no friends. Bat II l
succeed shall make friends Gold
must be the real philosophers stone,
she told herself bitterly, "only that It
sometimes works backward, like a
vi'ch's prayer
hitc. two ycais spent in self-educa-
ton in practical matters the girl inv So
at her Inheritance in the purchase Of Il
small establishment. known as the FL
gle Eotcl, at saltwater.
The hotel was not OF much cOnse-
cucncc when Miss Danvcr bought it,,
but before ten years it had become the
most fashionable hotel III the neigh
borhocd. She was so thoroughly in
earnest. so firmly determined to suc-
ceed, having staked 50 much on Ter
venture, that her own intensity tTdus-
mittod itself into everything she
touched. I'll her energies mimic her
work. all her income was spent III at
yantaaoous developments, and ii sle
grew at last TO speak little too often OF
my hotel " and "my arrangements "
and "the accommodation for my yisi-
tors" her pride in what she had
achieved was considered very plrion4-
be 10y the friends whom she had made
at Saltwater.
Her nieces, however, as we have
seen. did not acquicsce in the popular
verdict and though, in tangible ways,
they had reason to bless the day on
which their mother sent for Aunt
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